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• Albert Eikendal, Beekbergen (Apeldoorn) († 1965)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Benders, Hardinxveld († 1956)
• Albert Bowman, Adams, Green, Wisconsin, United States († 1952)
• Alexander Ebing, Tiel
• Adrianus Meijer, Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Adriaan Versluijs, Oudewater
• Adrianus de Vette, Kethel en Spaland († 1884)
• Aldert Klazes van Dam, Langezwaag, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1947)
• Alle Gjalt Roorda, Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1967)
• Adriana de Bruijn, Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)

• Aartje REIJERKERK (1), Puttershoek
• Adriana Noordermeer (69), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Slikke van der (60), Sint-Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Meer (0), Spijkenisse
• Alida Raaphorst (80), Leiden
• Alida Schmall (44), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NEDERLAND
• Aaltje Swier (38), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Noordermeer (69), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eekelen, van (64)
• Aaltjen Steenblik (24), Ruurlo, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1874 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1951)
• 1874 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1952)
• 1878 » Reza Shah, Iranian king († 1944)
• 1879 » Benjamin R. Jacobs, American biochemist († 1963)
• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian-Greek painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health († 1961)
• 1887 » Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods († 1973)
• 1890 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer († 1980)
• 1892 » James Basevi Ord, Mexican-American colonel († 1938)
• 1897 » Jackson Scholz, American runner († 1986)

• 1832 » Otto Wilhelm Masing, Estonian linguist and clergyman (b. 1763)
• 1842 » Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1849 » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1891 » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
• 1897 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
• 1921 » Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
• 1927 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)
• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
• February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
• May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
• October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
• October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.

The temperature on March 15, 1884 was about 17.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.